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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	article_n	church_n	creed_n	1,359	5	10.1652	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53999	Jerub-baal, or, The pleader impleaded being an answer to Mr. Croftons (lately published) plea for communion with the Church under her present corruptions, &c., entituled Reformation not separation by way of humble remonstrance thereunto : shewing, that non-communion with the Church of England in her liturgy and common-prayer, in those that (yet) joyn with her in the substantial ordinances and instituted worship of Christ, is no schism, and that such are unjustly called separatists : in a letter / written by T.P. for the private satisfaction of a friend, and by him published for common benefit.	T. P.	1662 (1662)	Wing P112; ESTC R7299	36,119	58

shall be saved Worship is necessary to Salvation How shall they call on him in whom they have not beleeved Faith is necessary to Worship How shall they beleeve in him of whom they have not heard Hearing is necessary to Faith How shall they hear without a Preacher Preaching is necessary to Hearing so that without Worship there is no Salvation without Faith no true Worship without Hearing no Faith and without Preaching no Hearing therefore a primo ad ultimum the Word preached is necessary to Salvation no Word no Life ah may this loathed Manna never fail from amidst our Brittish-Israel Thrice miserable are they whose Sun sets where the Sun of Righteousnesse never rose with healing in his Wings Solomon the great Sophi of the World hath long agoe read the Destinie of such Where there is no Vision ●●eunt pere●●t the people perish Prov. 29.18 a sad Exit There is Visio Salvifica in the Church Militant as well as Visio Beatifica in the Triumphant There be no true Saints who are not in this sense SEERS This is the first Communion wherein I am chargeable with no Breach while I professe my self a Christian All Professors throughout the VVorld are in this respect Communicants 2. Communion with the Church Visible by way of Participation or actual Enjoyment of the Ordinances and celebration of the instituted Worship of Christ in a particular place the Communion in question is I grant a Duty oblieging semper but not ad semper To explaine my self A Particular Church such as is the Church of England having her rise as such not from a Common Call by the Word onely for the Catholick-Visible Church hath her rise from that but from a Particular Providential Call for so I may term it whereby Persons whether Natives or Forreigners are called to inhabit reside or live there where there is fit Opportunity of enjoying the Publique Ordinances and celebrating the instituted Worship of Christ by way of Social-Joynt-Communion as Providence Opportunity or necessary Occasions shall vary the Obligation to Joynt-Communion must vary also Mr. Crofton cannot deny that there may be many Members of the Vniversal Catholick who yet never had opportunity of associating themselves with or of Joynt-Communion in the Solemn Publique Worship he speaks of in a Particular Church and many have had it who have been deprived of it as Merchants and Marriners professing the true Religion who in pursuance of their Secular Callings are distanced from a true Constituted Church some of them living in Spaine others in India others in Turky c. or such as through sickness are kept from the Enjoyment of Publick Ordinances c. We cannot say that Communion with a Particular Church in such Persons under that providence is an Indispensable duty or Non-Communion Schism unless we also say which were very hard that they are bound to an Impossibility Providence gives a Dispensation as it were in case of Necessary and Inevitable Non-Communion In a word Where Opportunity is serving Violence not obstructing Corruptions not barring no Necessity hindering there Joynt-Communion in Solemn Publique Worship is an Indispensable duty otherwise That which gives a Call gives also a Discharge viz. Providence Those that disclaim all Church-Fellowship out of a peevish petulancy slighting all opportunities thereof are justly to be disclaimed as Self-out-lawed such as the Vagrant Seekers c. led by the Ignis Fatuus the wild-fire of their own deluded Fancy Surely Communion of Saints is no Article of their Creed the maintaining of which should be in our respective Capacities every ones endeavour But to proceed Sir I own an Obligation lying upon me whereby I am bound to communicate with the Church of England whereof I professe my self a Member she being as is acknowledged a True Church notwithstanding her many Corruptions in these Parts of Gods Real-Solemn Publick Worship wherein Violent Impositions Prevalent Corruptions or some or other Inevitable barrs necessitate not a withdrawment and Non-Communion and if I should not I should greatly sin But what does this make for Communion with her in her Liturgy and Common-Prayer Yes sayes Mr. Crofton 'T is an Act of Solemn Publick Worship c. and therefore matter of duty That is next to be tryed The Second Thing to be distinguished is Solemn Publick Worship Religious Worship may be said to be Solemn and Publick in respect of a threefold Community or Solemnity viz 1. Personal In respect of Persons worshipping 2. Local In respect of the Place of worship 3. Real In respect of the Matter and Constitution of worship 1. That Worship which is celebrated by a Plurality or Society of Persons wheresoever convented is Solemn and Publique in respect of Persons now our English Liturgy-Service may I confess in this respect passe for Worship Solemn and Publique and so may the Popish-Masse-Service too 2. That Worship properly is in respect of Place Solemn and Publick the particular Place whereof as well as the Worship it self is appointed of God Now the Jewish Worship celebrated in the Temple Tabernacle was in this respect as shall appear by and by the onely Solemn and Publique Worship in the world 3. That Worship whereof God is the Author as well as the Object the Word the Rule as well as the Matter The Catholick-Doctrine of Christ and his Apostles That Worship which Christ Himself the Churches Lord-Regent and Law-giver did appoint and institute which the Apostles His Seminary Disciples did by vertue of Authority derived from Him commend and command which the Gospel the Christian Churches Directory doth Licence and Warrant which hath been by a Continued Series and Succession of Christian Professors Faiths Defenders from Christ and his Apostles uninterruptedly maintained and at length through the Current of Sixteen hundred years happily as to substance at least transmitted and conveyed to us is in respect of Matter Authentique Constitution and Reality the onely Solemn Publique Divine Worship in the Christian world Now to apply 1. Communion with the Church-Visible in that Worship which is in respect of Matter and Authentique Constitution Solemn and Publique namely That which was instituted by Christ Himself the Churches Publique Head preached and pressed by the Apostles the Churches Publique Guides recorded as the onely Evangelical Worship in the Gospel the Churches Publique Rule and in conformity to this Rule observed and performed by the Primitive Christians for the first two hundred years the purest Ages of the Christian Church This and all other Churches Publique Example is I readily grant an Essential Part of the Sanctification of the Lords Day and a Positive indispensable duty to be upon perill superseded or intermitted upon no less Warrant or Authority then that which imposed it with this assurance that God will have mercy and not sacrifice In Conscience whereof I own my self oblieged to joyn with some Society in a Particular True Church a Part of the Church Catholick-Visible while opportunity serves and no Real Inevitable Obstruction